Back from Spain at last
This is just a brief update,not the tell all about my trip. I'm trying to decide whether to call it "Lost in Spain," or "Las aventuras de las tres locas." What do you like? I still have to take my slides in to be processed, and to upload those images I took with my digital camera, and I'm doing laundry right now. However, I plan to go to a movie this afternoon, and after that, the jet lag might zap me again, so we'll see how long it all takes. I left home on July 1, landed in Madrid. That's where I attended the Women's Worlds '08, and international, interdisciplinary congress on women, until July 8. Then Judith Lorber, Susan Farrell, and I rented a car from Avis and took off to explore northern Spain. As soon as the cobwebs clear from my brain, I'll try to write down some of our adventures, and my impressions, at least as much as I can remember. I didn't write anything in my journal the whole time, at least after the first attempt on my way there, so it will depend on my photos to job my memory.
Let me just say from the beginning, if you rent a car in a foreign country, take the GPS along with you, even it it's expensive to rent. Make sure it's in your own language, not the language of the country. It might not turn out to be better than Mapquest or Google maps or Yahoo maps, but then again it might. And at least it woud provide an alternate point of view. Reading the map doesn't always give you all the information you need, like which streets are one way, etc.
Looking forward to sharing all this with you. but I will be going out of town again on Friday through Monday. I might have time to write while I'm taking the train to L.A., but it will be by hand, since I won't be carrying a laptop
Let me just say from the beginning, if you rent a car in a foreign country, take the GPS along with you, even it it's expensive to rent. Make sure it's in your own language, not the language of the country. It might not turn out to be better than Mapquest or Google maps or Yahoo maps, but then again it might. And at least it woud provide an alternate point of view. Reading the map doesn't always give you all the information you need, like which streets are one way, etc.
Looking forward to sharing all this with you. but I will be going out of town again on Friday through Monday. I might have time to write while I'm taking the train to L.A., but it will be by hand, since I won't be carrying a laptop